This guide is designed to help the preservice or inservice vocational teacher or other occupational trainer understand the general nature and use of the performance-based teacher education (PBTE) materials. The information is organized in an easy-to-read, question-and-answer format. Questions that are felt to be of concern to teachers are…

This manual for training coordinators and caregiver instructors provides a course of comprehensive introductory level training for family day care providers. The first section gives an overview of the project, in terms of background, program goals, educational theoretical considerations, role and responsibilities of training coordinator and…

Written by the Minnesota Early Childhood Teacher Educators (MECTE), this booklet focuses on the knowledge and competencies needed by the kindergarten teacher. While the booklet is primarily addressed to college faculty for use in training pre-service kindergarten teachers, it can also be used as a resource for other college faculties, practicing…

A program for trained vocational education curriculum specialists (VECS), consisting of 16 modules, was written, revised, and field tested at 15 sites nationwide. The instructional materials were written to deliver the highest rated competencies based on a field survey of vocational educators and review by a national advisory panel of vocational…

A program for trained vocational education curriculum specialists (VECS), consisting of 16 modules, was written, revised, and field tested at 15 sites nationwide. The instructional materials were written to deliver the highest rated competencies based on a field survey of vocational educators and review by a national advisory panel of vocational…

One of a series of performance-based teacher education learning packages focusing upon specific professional competencies of vocational teachers, this learning module deals with organizing an occupational advisory committee. It consists of an introduction and three learning experiences. Covered in the first learning experience are organizing an…

One of a series of performance-based teacher education learning packages focusing upon specific professional competencies of vocational teachers, this learning module deals with conducting group discussions, panel discussions, and symposia. It consists of an introduction and five learning experiences. Covered in the first module are techniques and…

Papers presented at the National Professional Preparation Conference in Physical Education were revised and expanded for publication in this monograph. In part I, two papers, "Professional Preparation Conferences: One More Time" (W. G. Anderson) and "Current Context and Future Curriculum" (M. J. Ellis), set the stage for a…

This staff development module is one of four in a series designed for use with the Georgia Comprehensive Counseling and Guidance units. The aim of this module is to teach school personnel how to use the Life Career Assessment (LCA), a structured interview technique, in order to facilitate the teacher/advisor, student/advisee relationship. The…

Involving 195 vocational, technical, and adult education (VTAE) personnel from Wisconsin's 16 VTAE districts, this study was designed to identify the teaching competencies needed by beginning VTAE teachers and to recommend alternative delivery systems for obtaining professional competencies necessary for VTAE certification. With plans to provide a…

Described is the Special Educator Training System which uses the Diagnostic Teaching Model and is applicable to all levels and types of teaching including preservice, in-service, elementary, intermediate, secondary, handicapped children, and normal children. The "Teacher Competency Journal", a 100 page document based on 323 performance objectives…

This report focuses upon the efforts of public school educators and administrators in Washington, D.C., to improve teaching and learning through a comprehensive educational plan. One of the goals in this plan was defined as the promotion of academic excellence for the attainment of knowledge, competencies, and skills. Special education projects…

This second in a series of eight learning modules on professional role and development is designed to give secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers aid in serving their profession by helping them become aware of the various ways they can serve it (e.g., through active support of organizations representing the profession, volunteer work on…

As the accountability movement has brought forth renewed interest in the quality of teaching and new demands for faculty evaluation, it could be expected that the relationship between the two would have created the foundation for a rigorous program of faculty evaluation. Instead, educators continued a fruitless search for qualities and behaviors…

This study was conducted to determine differences between: (1) supervisors' ratings of instructional competencies of education majors and non-education majors in a semester of student teaching; and (2) evaluations by education majors and non-education majors of their morale during a student teacher program. Data were collected during one semester…